To battle against the heart of my foe is far different than battling against any weapon that they might hold in their hands. And as for my enemy, the same is true for what I hold in mine.

We may not necessarily be all that gifted, but we certainly have passion. And maybe we should start understanding that passion is a gift of such importance that without it any other gift doesn’t matter. Therefore, we are gifted indeed.

Destiny suggests that the effect of our life is to exceed the length of our life. Therefore, today never ends with today.

The statement “this is all the farther I can go” is in fact code for “this is all the farther I’m willing to go.” And if I want to go nowhere in life, all I have to do is keep confusing these two statements.

Any dream that is all contemplation and no initiation is only a wish.

I probably ‘thought’ myself into the place that I have now ‘found’ myself.

My hunger is not for lack of ‘things’ to nurture me. Rather, it’s about the lack of the ‘right things’ to nurture me.

I don’t know that anything really new can be said about love, for something so imposing has long captured the attention and teased the words of untold millions, including myself. But in similar fashion, nothing new can be said of the struggle that I have to live it out in the way that I have so often written it out.

If the dream is not bigger than me, I have mistaken an idea for a dream.